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<P>Babatope and all,</P>
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<P> I don't. It disincludes new members or participants which is far from open and transparent.<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Babatope Soremi <BABATOPE@GMAIL.COM><BR>Sent: Aug 25, 2009 11:22 AM <BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, Rui Correia <CORREIA.RUI@GMAIL.COM><BR>Subject: Re: [governance] Rules decide Membership not existing Members <BR><BR>Dear all,
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<DIV>I think Rui's suggestion is spot-on.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rui Correia <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:correia.rui@gmail.com" target=_blank>correia.rui@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Amended Point 2, adding: "That should take care of concerns around representativeness/ transparency etc."<BR><BR>
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<DIV class=im>Dear All<BR><BR>I am beginning to think that a way out of this - though it is not backed up by our constitution documents - is to follow the electoral model used in elections in countries, cities etc: <BR><BR>1. One has to have been a resident/ citizen for x number of years - in our case a member of the list for x number of months/ years. That should take care of concerns around "capture".<BR></DIV>2. One has to have to have been in the country/ city for the past x period of time - in our case have been seen to be active and participating at least once in the past x period of time. That should take care of concerns around representativeness/ transparency etc <BR>
<DIV class=im>3. Possibly a participation threshold of at least x number of contributions a year since becoming a member, having already met the requirements of points 1 and 2 above.<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>Rui <BR><BR> <BR>________________________________________________<BR><BR><BR>Rui Correia<BR>Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant<BR>2 Cutten St<BR>Horison <BR>Roodepoort-Johannesburg, <BR>South Africa<BR>Tel/ Fax (+27-11) 766-4336<BR>Mobile (+27) (0) 84-498-6838<BR>_______________<BR>áâãçéêíóôõúç<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>
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<DIV class=h5>________________________________________________<BR><BR><BR>Rui Correia<BR>Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant<BR>2 Cutten St<BR>Horison <BR>Roodepoort-Johannesburg, <BR>South Africa<BR>Tel/ Fax (+27-11) 766-4336<BR>Mobile (+27) (0) 84-498-6838<BR>_______________<BR>áâãçéêíóôõúç<BR></DIV></DIV><BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR> <A href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" target=_blank>governance@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR> <A href="mailto:governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org" target=_blank>governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org</A><BR><BR>For all list information and functions, see:<BR> <A href="http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance" target=_blank>http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Babatope Soremi<BR><BR>I'm totally sold out to changing my world for good....<BR><BR><BR>Register your Domain: (<A href="http://www.nairahost.com.ng/ngclient/aff.php?aff=007" target=_blank>http://www.nairahost.com.ng/ngclient/aff.php?aff=007</A><BR><BR>You can't give what you don't have........<BR></DIV>
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